The Linux Foundation's latest partnership could shake up open-source ecosystems - here's why

Linux foundation and OpenInfra/ZDNET To strengthen the open-source community, the Linux Foundation and the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra) have announced plans for OpenInfra to join the Linux Foundation as a member foundation. This decision follows unanimous approval from both organizations' boards and aims to unite their vibrant global ecosystems to provide trusted open-source solutions. Also: Gartner identifies top trends in data and analytics for 2025 - and AI takes the lead The Linux Foundation was formed when the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) merged with the Free Standards Group in 2007. Back then, its focus was to standardize desktop and enterprise Linux. Today, it oversees more than 900 open-source projects. In OpenInfra's case, it started as the OpenStack Foundation in 2012. Its mission was to oversee the OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service open-source cloud. In 2020, the foundation changed its name to OpenInfra and expanded beyond OpenStack to include: A ... Read full article.